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Retro Formats and Tips

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Goal Race

Fast team car: What have been making us move fast?

(Green post-it)

Parachute: What have been slowing us down?(Violet post-

it)

Risk: What are the dangers?  (Red post-it)

Bridge Plan: What could we build to overcome such

challenges? (Blue post-it)

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Sail Boat

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Poll

Define down the scale of idea appreciation (e.g. 1-4)

Then ask everyone to write down a number on a post

Fold it and drop it in a hat

Take the sum of all the numbers and divide it by the number of participants

Always use an even number as a scale, this way everybody has to choose a side, they can’t just stand in the middle.

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Lego

Provide everybody with

the Lego

Ask to picture in Lego their views or

feelings of the last Sprint

Ask everybody to describe

their figure(s)

Suggest to incorporate all figures into one

scene

Define areas that requires

improvements

Ask to make solutions to it in

with Lego

Make voting for solutions

List the winners as action items

(due date, owner)

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5 Whys (Root-Cause Analysis)

Explore relevant problems

Recognize real causes

Know that there are always multiple causes for a problem

Vary the way that you ask “why”

Root causes almost always have to do with people. It’s rarely a technical or tool

problem, most of the time it has to do with skills, knowledge, leadership, power,

authority, communication, collaboration, or the way the work is done.

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The Wheel (Starfish)

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How are you?

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Walk the Board

Invite the team to gather around the task board

Suggest to reconstruct the history of each user story 

Explain the team that our goal is to find good and non-good patters of our development cycle.Start with a user story that is only recently

finished.  This is easier because it is still fresh in mind.

Explore the patterns that helps and the one that don’t

Think of actions you can take to reduce or eliminate non-good patterns.

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Walt Disney Creativity Technique

Dreamer Realist

CriticObserv

er (client)

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That Guy & This Guy

This Guy That Guy

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The Peaks and Valleys timeline

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Retro Surgery

Inspect Your Retrospective

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Tips

Use a space without a table

Find a good spaces and mix it up

Do a 'warm up' exercise

Use a facilitator from outside the team)

Get Everyone Involved…Early

Giving appreciation